[HTML][HTML] The critical care/acute medicine interphase

S Fletcher - Future Hospital Journal, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ABSTRACT A significant number of medical admissions and inpatients on general wards
are unstable or have unmet medical or nursing needs. Ward-based physiological scoring …

Criteria for admission to the ICU and scoring systems for severity of illness

S Hudson, O Boyd - Surgery (Oxford), 2007 - Elsevier
Surgical patients comprise 60–70% of admissions to ICUs in the UK. There is significant and
increasing pressure on level-2 (HDU) and level-3 (ITU) beds. Guidelines on admission to …

A warning on early-warning scores!

BH Cuthbertson, GB Smith - British journal of anaesthesia, 2007 - academic.oup.com
It is clinically intuitive that physiological deterioration precedes critical illness, and there is
growing research evidence to support this belief. 1–6 The use of track and trigger early …

Recognition and early management of the critically ill ward patient

P Frost, MP Wise - British Journal of Hospital Medicine (2005 …, 2007 - magonlinelibrary.com
The management of general ward patients who develop critical illness is often suboptimal.
There are many reasons for this including a lack of a systematic approach to these patients …

[PDF][PDF] Improving early warning scores–more data, better validation, the same response

KJ Oglesby, JAC Sterne, B Gibbison - Anaesthesia, 2020 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
The practice of contemporary critical care is becoming synonymous with standardisation of
clinical practice. This is apparent in the ever-expanding number of care bundles, consensus …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of early warning systems on a medical admissions unit

J de Pennington, J Laurenson… - Journal of the …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Background In 2000, one percent of acute hospital beds were designated for general critical
care and the average number of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in a hospital was six 1 …

Critical care in the emergency department: introduction

P Nee, F Andrews, E Rivers - Emergency medicine journal, 2006 - emj.bmj.com
Graham and Parke recently pub-lished the first of an occasional series of articles whose aim
is to stimulate interest in and discussion on the care of critically ill adults in the emergency …

Improving outcomes for severely ill medical patients

S Baudouin, T Evans - Clinical Medicine, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Simon Baudouin and Timothy Evans round). Moreover, the presence of highly experienced
junior medical and anaesthetic staff has in the past reduced the exposure of consultant …

[HTML][HTML] Critical care outreach comes to Canada

AD Baxter - CMAJ, 2006 - Can Med Assoc
† BMJ 2002; 324 (7334): 387-90.‡ BMJ 2003; 327 (7422): 1014-7. This study was done in
the United Kingdom; all others took place in Australian hospitals. § Med J Aust 2003; 179 …

Intensive care outreach services

DR Goldhill, A McNarry - Current Anaesthesia & Critical Care, 2002 - Elsevier
Intensive Care Outreach as a widespread, organized service was introduced throughout
most of the United Kingdom in the later half of 2000 and early 2001. This followed …